Veran drove the missing foundation key deeper into the council floor while five occupied circles closed around his position.
No additional anchor line remained anywhere outside the sealed hall. No grounded route had returned since the avatar collapsed the western transfer ways.
The complete surviving inventory held two unwilling healers plus three trapped palace guards, with every name already written on Didi's slate.
[ Occupied Anchors: 5 ]
[ Inventory: 2 Unwilling Healers / 3 Trapped Guards ]
Aria opened her assessment beside Hajin's ear before anyone moved against the circles. "The fused core's reclaimable authority dwarfs your remaining 5,520,000 experience by several multiples. One clean severance would carry you across the Ring 5 threshold outright."
'One clean cut, and the fifth threshold stops being a distant number.'
